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The woman in the picture has a look of worry and determination on her face, but what really draws the gaze is the machine gun she’s pointing a little too close to the viewer’s direction. Even if we’re not the target, we might be in the line of fire. Then there’s the words spilling out all around her. Hustle hard, they say, and keep on with a narrative about just having to provide for a family, defend home. Who is she? Are the words her interior monologue? Or are they both part of a greater whole?
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St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School at the ice rink in February 2020.
The city has tapped a Bridgeport-based management company with three decades of experience operating ice rinks to help turn the renovated Ralph Walker Skating Rink into a “wonderland of ice” starting this October.
Qinxuan Pan (right) in court Tuesday with attorney William Gerace.
A North Haven cop was with Qinxuan Pan when the officer received a New Haven police broadcast that an alleged murderer was on the loose — someone driving a dark-colored GMC Terrain SUV.
Qinxuan Pan (right) with attorney William Gerace in court on June 1.
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Whyte: Why shoot my house?
• Runs 96 pages. • Blood evidence cited to support murder charge. • Pan linked to other, nonfatal shootings in town, including of deputy school superintendent’s house. • North Haven cops let Pan go — even though they knew license plate on his car was stolen. • New Haven dispatcher later sent out incorrect bulletin for “Black” suspect. • New details of Jiang murder revealed.
The city plans to ditch a vacant lot (bottom right in photo) to facilitate the development of next phase of Corsair.
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City’s Carlos Eyzaguirre: Lot is currently empty and trashed.
Forty-four years after first acquiring a triangular sliver of highway-adjacent land from the state, the city plans to give it back — with the hopes that the parcel could soon sprout roughly 70 Upper State Street apartments as part of “Corsair II.”
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 22, 2021 4:52 pm
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The empty pit at 31 Sheffield Ave. Landlord Edward Zislis (below): New 3-family home in the works.
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A new three-family house on Sheffield Avenue is one step closer to rising from the ashes of its burned-down predecessor — and, two neighborhoods away, three new townhouses won the thumbs up to pop up atop a Humphrey Street backyard.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 17, 2021 10:18 am
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It’ll be easier for East Rockers to find their way to the gym and then an after-workout stop at the brewery.
That’s because Tuesday night, at its regular Zoom-assisted meeting, the Board of Zoning Appeals approved the placing of two signs at 268 Nicoll St. in the Goatville section of East Rock.
That’s the parking lot adjacent to the mActivity Fitness Center, part of a complex that also houses the East Rock Brewery.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 16, 2021 9:33 am
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On Friday evening, Elena Augusewicz, Peter Cunningham, Jared Emerling, Jessica Larkin-Wells, Conor Perreault, and Charli Taylor — a.k.a. six of the Never Ending Books Collective — met in the storefront at 810 State St. They talked about how the beloved bookstore, music spot, and community space, which announced it was ending its decades-long run in December, may turn out not to be ending after all.
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Feb 13, 2021 7:17 pm
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A picture of Linda Liu and her late son Kevin Jiang, shared at Jiang’s memorial service Saturday.
Liu (left), with a translator, at Saturday’s service.
“Kevin lived full-heartedly, enthusiastically, like a ray of sunlight,” Linda Liu said about her late son, Kevin Jiang, a 26-year-old Yale grad student who was shot to death in the Goatville section of East Rock last week.
“He gave so much joy and happiness to me and to the people around us. I could not believe that a life full of so much energy and light could vanish from before my eyes.”
An MIT artificial-intelligence researcher wanted for questioning for the murder of Kevin Jiang visited car dealerships looking to buy a small model SUV prior to last Saturday’s homicide.
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Paul Bass & Thomas Breen |
Feb 10, 2021 6:28 pm
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Spots investigators have visited in connection with the murder investigation: Sims Metals (top), Best Western Hotel, Arby’s.
Qinxuan Pan: Considered armed and dangerous.
“Soon after” Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was shot dead in New Haven’s Goatville neighborhood, North Haven police encountered MIT researcher Qinxuan Pan — and they let him go.
Now a nationwide manhunt is on to find Pan, who is wanted for questioning in the murder.
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Feb 10, 2021 4:55 pm
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Katz at Tuesday’s vigil. Below: A memorial for Kevin Jiang at Nicoll and Lawrence.
Natalia Katz attended an anti-gun violence rally in Fair Haven Saturday afternoon, and left feeling buoyed by community efforts to stop further bloodshed.
By the time she got home to her East Rock apartment later that same night, she found police cars everywhere and a dead body in the middle of the street — the city’s sixth homicide victim already this year.
Kevin Jiang and Zion Perry, after getting engaged on Jan. 30, a week before a man shot Jiang to death in New Haven. Jiang and Perry met while she was still an undergraduate at MIT.
On what would be the newly engaged couple’s last day together before a brutal murder, Zion Perry and Kevin Jiang went ice fishing, caught a pickerel, and cooked dinner at her East Rock apartment.
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Paul Bass and Thomas Breen |
Feb 8, 2021 12:18 pm
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Kevin Jiang.
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Chief Reyes at Monday’s press conference.
The murder of a 26-year-old Yale forestry graduate student near his new fiancee’s home in the Goatville section of East Rock appears not to have been a “random” act, New Haven’s police chief revealed Monday.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 15, 2021 4:40 pm
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Friday’s virtual Love March.
To Rev. Boise Kimber, last week’s Capitol insurrection inspired by the president is proof that systemic racism is “here to stay.”
To U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Thursday night’s $1.9 trillion economic plan proposed by the president-elect is proof that sound public policy can undo the material harms of hate.
A little triangular orphan lot across the street from the successful Corsair complex on State Street might become the site of another 60 units of spiffy apartments.
The proposed new project would incorporate an old existing building, add on to it on an adjoining surface parking lot, and toss “affordable” units in the mix.
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Allan Appel |
Aug 25, 2020 11:49 am
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Forget the door-to-door trick-or-treating and the accidental sidewalk clustering of ghosts, demons, ballplayers, and Beyonces. Covid-19 may not allow for those traditions.
Here’s an alternative idea: Invite small groups of socially distancing trick-or-treaters and their families to four different garages to watch four groups of actors perform a story of a giant Brazilian snake that saves the forests and the world.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 3, 2020 10:15 am
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Todd Lyon get a leg up on the big move.
Like the vintage wares it has been selling for over 15 years, Fashionista Vintage and Variety will be continuing on in a new way and space: 85 Willow St., to be exact.
The beloved shop closed its doors at the corner of Whitney and Trumbull last week. It will be moving its abundance of top hats, taffeta, and everything else to its new home in the MarlinWorks building in East Rock this week.
Four of Xu’s local rental properties: 113 Ivy St., 761 Winchester Ave., 126 Sheffield Ave., 50 Nash St.
Dr. Xu.
A prominent Bethany-based doctor has slowly rebuilt his poverty-landlord business four years after he dumped many of his rundown, code-defying local rental properties.
So far, he appears to be staying out of trouble this time with the city and his tenants.
The Columbus House, which runs emergency shelters and other programs for the homeless, will keep alive a Covid-19 drop-in triage tent erected on East Rock’s Blake Field.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 23, 2020 1:58 pm
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In another continuing sign that the pandemic is easing its grip on our area, officials announced that the Blake Field Drop-In Center—a pop-up facility (pictured) providing on-site Covid-19 testing and other services for the homeless amid the pandemic— will soon fold its flaps.
